5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Philippe Lacôte
The Ivorian filmmaker wished he had made Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, based on the filmmaker’s own dreams, when the fantastical infiltrates the real.
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Why we can’t breathe
The last few years have revealed that, particularly at the state level, justice for Black Americans is an impossibility.
The Invisible Children Highlight Reel
Nine conclusions we can draw from the hype machine that was the viral advocacy campaign, Kony 2012. One of them was that ordinary Ugandans saw right through it.
Feel the Rainbow
Designer Akosua Afriye-Kumi: "A lot of designers take or find inspiration from Africa, I want to do the same but actually be in Africa doing it."
A New Kind of Romance
Nigerian publisher: it is time the continent’s consumer class gets romance lit that is entertaining and reflect the complexity of their lives.
Explaining Racism to a White South African Liberal
Highlighting spectacular incidents of racial violence is that they overshadow the daily, unrecorded anti-black racist acts.
Pure Bacardi house fun
Hipsters Don't Dance Top World Carnival Tunes for November 2014.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
When I was first given the opportunity to write this weekly series, I reached out to a few friends and colleagues who work in the digital realm for suggestions on possible projects that I could feature. One of the first projects that was suggested to me, by fellow AIAC contributor Jill Kelly, when I started […]
Black death and revolution
In the days leading up to the grand jury decisions in the separate murders of Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, there was a certain tension that I felt brewing walking around New York City. There were a few people speaking in hushed tones here, a couple of Facebook statuses […]
#ICANTBREATHE
One morning last semester at John Jay College in New York City, I asked my students how many of them had ever been stopped by the police. All of them raised their hands, and we fell into a spirited conversation about the constitutionality of “Stop and Frisk” and the fine distinctions between reasonable suspicion and […]
The Fate of la Francophonie
Do we still need an organization of France's former colonies? Whose interests does it actually serve?
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Kivu Ruhorahoza
Ruhorahoza wished he made "Sans Soleil" by Chris Marker: "The film is a good example of the work of a filmmaker who has reached maturity and an artist who is truly free."